Beacon History So Far -03/20

The banker who headed up U.S. Steel, one of the most successful holding companies.

• John D. Rockefeller

• J.P Morgan

• Andrew Carnegie

Introduced by Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson, it opened the way for a  world wide communication network.

• Telegraph

• Telephone

• Steam Engine

Meaning the Night of the Broken Glass, it was when Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues across Germany.

• Night of Terror

• Night of the Nazis

• Kristallnacht

The number of Jews killed in the concentration camps is about

• 3 Million

• 6 Million

• 10 Million

The first skyscraper with a steel frame.

• Empire State Building

• Flat Iron Building

• Home Insurance Building

In 1867 he invented the typewriter.

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Thomas Watson

• Christopher Shoals

The largest U.S. naval base in the Pacific, it was attacked by more than 180 Japanese war planes on December 7th 1941

• Pearl Harbor

• Guadalcanal

• Guantanamo Bay

The systematic murder of 11 million people across Europe, more than half of whom were Jews.

• The Blitz

• The Holocaust

• The Armegeddon

Socialism in its most extreme form.

• Democracy

• Communism

• Republicanism

Developed around 1850, it involved injecting air into molten iron to remove carbon and other impurities.

• Open Hearth Process

• Vulcinization

• Bessemer Process